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  • Iranian spies die in dawn hanging Iranian spies die in dawn hanging

    Two spies have been hanged in Iran following a Revolutionary Court judgement. Press TV has reported the spies, who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, were hanged at dawn on Sunday. Sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, the men have been named as Mohammad Heidari, a Mossad agent and Kourosh Ahmadi, who was convicted of working for ...

  • 61 killed in Iraq attacks

    A series of car bombings and shootings, mainly targeting Shia Muslim areas across Iraq, Monday killed at least 61 people, including Iranian pilgrims, and wounded around 200 others, officials said. The worst violence occurred in Baghdad, when eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods in the capital city, killing 12 ...

  • Iran executes two alleged spies

    Iranian authorities have executed two men after they were charged and convicted for spying Israel and the United States. Iran has repeatedly accused Israel and the U.S. of carrying out covert intelligence operations following ongoing pressure on the country over its nuclear programme, which the Western nations suspect as being used to build an atomic weapon, despite Tehran's insistence that the ...

  • Iran election officials may shut out former president

    Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani listens during a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani at the presidential palace March 2, 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty ...

  • Iran says it is building new air defense missile

    The report by state TV quotes Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying the new system, dubbed Herz-9 or Talisman-9 in Farsi, is also capable of operating at night.He said the system was mobile and could automatically identify and target flying objects at "low altitude."The TV report showed the system, involving double missiles mounted on a truck.From time to time Iran announces ...

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American Madness [DVD]

American Madness [DVD]

Although Frank Capra had been working in the film industry since the late teens--churning out gags for Mack Sennett, directing low-budget "quickies" for fledgling Columbia Pictures--American Madness is the first of his films that can be rightly described as "Capraesque" i ... ...

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  • Deputy Knesset Speaker Feiglin on Iran Arab Spring U.S. Aid and More

    JERUSALEM -- Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) Moshe Feiglin, who leads the Manhigut Yehudit (the Jewish Leadership) faction of the ruling Likud Party, spoke ...

  • Iran tries to block out Rafsanjani

    Iran is to ban physically weak candidates from next month's presidential election, seen as a way of excluding a former leader who is a threat to ...

  • Iran hangs spies it says worked for US Israel

    Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media in early May as he registered his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election in Tehran, Iran. On Sunday, Iran hung two convicted spies, ahead of the June 14 presidential election. ...

  • ‘Syrian conflict is a war targeting Iran’

    Syria The rise of sectarian violence and recent Israeli bombing indicate that the true aim of the Syrian civil war is to weaken Iran's position in the region, Middle East expert Tariq Ali said in an interview with RT. Hezbollah militants are fighting beside Syrian governmental troops to retake the strategic town of Qusair from the rebels. It's considered a key weapons smuggling ...

  • Iranian Christians face systematic persecution and prosecution

    Iran's treatment of its Christian minority has come under fresh scrutiny in recent months with some damning verdicts on the country's human rights record. Reports from the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) and New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) cite evidence of "systematic persecution and prosecution" of Protestants and ...

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